The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 96
At once the cap changed to a slate, on which was written in big, white chalk marks:
What happens: change, write · To what, where: cap, big white chalk marks
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cap | det |
| 4 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 once | nsubj |
| 5 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cap | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 slate | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 slate | det |
| 8 | slate | slate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 changed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 written | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 written | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 written | aux:pass |
| 13 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 changed | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 marks | case |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 marks | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 big | punct |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 marks | amod |
| 18 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marks | compound |
| 19 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 written | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 once | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | the cap not said here | to a slate result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to slate=Result | ||||
| 2 | write | past · passive | big white chalk marks | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on which=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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